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"Once, when he kissed me, he said that I tasted better than baked potato," Miss Ruusunen, a mother of three, wrote. "That was great."

But the affair came to an end shortly after they were first seen in public together in the summer of 2006. The prime minister, Miss Russsunen claimed, sent her a short text message: "It's over."

The court ruled that publishing details of Mr Vanhanen's personal life was not illegal because there was a different threshold for privacy for politicians in the public eye. Publication of the book coincided with a rise in his poll ratings.